Persada Bandar Lampung based on syllabus on tenth grade, the students learn Narrative text.
B. Concept of Narrative Text 1. Definition of Narrative Text
According to Siahaan, narrative is any written English text in which the writer wants to amuse, entertain people, and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different
ways.
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It means that narrative text is kind of the text that tell the reader about story, as if the readers take part in the story that is purposed to amuse the readers.
Gerot state that Social function of narrative: to amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways; narratives deal with problematic
events which lead to crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.
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2. Social Function of Narrative Text
The social function of narrative text is to amuse entertain and to deal with actual or various experience indifferent ways; narrative deals with problematic events which
lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.
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It means that the purpose of narrative is to give to entertain and to deal with actual or
various experience indifferent ways, which is the evaluation shows now the problem
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Sanggam Siahaan, Op. Cit, p.73
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Linda Gerot, and Peter Weignell, The Genre-Grammar Connection, Australia: AEE, 1994 p.192-205
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Linda Gerot and Peter Weignell, Op.Cit, p.204
starts. Then, there will be complication which the problem arises. The resolution comes to solve the problem in story narrative.
3.Generic Structure of Narrative Text
The generic structure of narrative text, they are: a Orientation, introducing the characters of story, the time and place the story
happened. Who What, When, and Where. b Complication, a series of events in which the main character attempts to solve
problem. c Resolution, the ending of story containing the solution.
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From the statement in above, the researcher concludes that narrative introduces orientation to lead the writers to the context. It is continued by complication, which
tells about events and solve problem in a narrative. Then, it is solution of problem in resolution.
4. Concepts of Students’ Narrative Text Writing Ability
To make a good narrative text the writer must be creative. The writer also has to understand about points that must be there in narrative text writing. In writing a
narrative text, the writer expresses the idea or topic of the text by keep attention about rhetorical structure and language features of narrative text. The writer also has to
keep attention about five aspects of writing content, organization, vocabulary,
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Th. M. Sudarwati, Look Ahead An English Course For Senior High School StudentsYear XI, Jakarta: Erlangga, 2007, p.52
language, and mechanics because they will be the assessment of writing. In this research, the students have to retell the story of narrative text they read.
Based on the explanation above, the researcher makes conclusion that students’ narrative text writing ability is their ability to procedure or compose a text, by
retelling a pictures in the past whose purpose is to entertain and give moral lesson to the readers, which fulfills the criteria of good writing including content, organization,
vocabulary, language, and mechanics.
C. Think-Pair-Share Technique 1. Concept of Think Pair Share Technique
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